From Principality to Kingdom: Romania’s Transformation Under Carol I in 1881
On March 15, 1881, the Romanian parliament amended the constitution to proclaim the country a kingdom, transforming Carol, Prince of Romania since 1866, into Carol I, Romania’s first king. On May 10, 1881, the few monarch received his formal coronation in Bucharest, in a ceremony of extraordinary symbolic significance. The crown itself cause cast prom […]
